Thursday, August 17, 2017

The Bridge enables students and instructors to generate
customized vocabulary lists from its database of Greek and Latin
textbooks and texts. A list might include all the vocabulary from a core
list, an ancient text, or a textbook. But users can focus on a
selection of a list or work and also customize their lists to take into
account textbooks that they have used, core lists they have mastered,
and texts they have already read. These lists can then be filtered to
focus on one or more parts of speech, among other options, and then
printed or downloaded in a variety of formats.

The Project Director is Bret Mulligan, Associate Professor of Classics at Haverford College.

The Bridge was first developed by Julie Ta (Haverford ’16)
and Blair Rush (Haverford ’16) in the summer of 2014. Significant
revisions were begun in the summer and fall of 2015 by Jack Raisel
(Haverford ’17) and Julie Ta, and completed in the summer of 2017 by
Byron Biney (Swarthmore '19) and Dylan Emery (Haverford ’18). Additional
administrative, technical, and logistical support was provided by
Laurie Allen (Coordinator for Digital Scholarship and Services), Michael
Zarafonetis (Digital Scholarship Librarian), Andy Janco (Digital
Scholarship Librarian), Margaret Schaus (Lead Research and Instruction
Librarian), Adrienne Lucas (University of Delaware), Jennifer Rajchel
(Assistant Director, Tri-Co Digital Humanities), and Archana Kaku
(Tri-Co Digital Humanities Program Coordinator, Bryn Mawr College).
Initial data for The Bridge have been compiled by Florencia Foxley (HC
’13), Emma Mongoven (’14), Vanessa Felso (Bryn Mawr College ’15), and
Carman Romano (HC ’16). Additional collaborators are listed on the "Details About Texts". Data for some ancient texts were generously provided by the Laboratoire d’Analyse Statistique des Langues Anciennes at the Université de Liège and The Ancient Greek and Latin Dependency Treebanking Project. The development of The Bridge was made possible by the financial support of Haverford College (2014-2017), a Program Grant from the Classical Association of the Atlantic States (2015) a Mellon Digital Humanities Grant (2014-2015).

The word Mirabilia in latin is a neutral plural adjective which means "admirable things" or "wonders" and comes from the verb mirare, to regard, look at. Therefore, this name evokes the admirable aspects of the ancient and the medieval times.

The Journal Mirablia is an on line publication which provides articles, documents and academic reviews produced by scholars of Ancient and Medieval History from all over the world interested in increase and debate their interests.

This publication is connected to the deeper concept of Cultural History, which is expressed in the relationship between History and the other fields of knowledge and centers its studies in the literaires, religious, philosophycal and artistical aspects of those areas and their relationship in time and space.

The Journal Mirabilia intends not only to unite the studies of different branches in human sciences, but also to link the areas of Ancient and Medieval History in Brazil. The reason of this ambition is a simple one: the Brazilian scholars and students have a great difficulty to access the sources and the recent publications, an habitual problem to the countries of the Third World. Therefore, by approaching the two areas and providing them with opportunity of reaching the research findings in Brazil and abroad, We intend to strenghten the Brazilian studies of Ancient and Medieval History, proportioning to a greater number of people the acess to the result of the researches currently developed.

This area of the website gives you direct access to the excavation and other specialist data as
recorded during the excavation season. We will be updating the data available periodically but if
there is any particular data you would like to see please contact us
to see if we can help.
There are two ways to explore our excavation data. You can either browse the available data
which offers you categories of information to look at to help guide you through our datasets, or if you have a more
specific query in mind you can choose from our variety of Search Screens.

The LESSICO DEI GRAMMATICI GRECI ANTICHI (LGGA) represents an online
reference tool, specifically dedicated to the field of ancient Greek
philology, grammar and scholarship.This website, which was opened in 2002, has seen the in-progress
publication of cards regarding figures who are relevant, from various
points of view, for exegesis as well as erudite and
philological-grammatical research in the ancient world. The list of
figures taken into consideration has progressively increased up to a
total amount of more than 570. The cards available for downloading are
now over 300.
Starting from November 2015, LGGA is published by Brill under the name of
Lexicon of Greek Grammarians of Antiquity

The new web site publishes initially all the cards that were
available on Aristarchus, for some of which the corresponding English
version will be made available immediately. Over time each card will be
updated and supplied with an English translation. In addition, the cards
not yet included will be progressively added. As in the past, each card
is made up of:

an encyclopedic entry with discussion of biographical data and works/fragments of the grammarian;

ist and texts of ancient witnesses;

bibliography.

In comparison with the previous version, far more refined searches
are now possible (e. g. on the basis of chronology of the grammarians or
the content of the fragments) and the cards are easier to use thanks to
the addition of many cross-references both to other LGGA cards and to
different web sites (e. g. repertories of ancient texts or reference
works).

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

The Database of Classical Scholars is a multi-faceted database that aims to provide biographical
and bibliographical information on classical scholars from the period associated with classical
scholarship as currently understood, from the end of the eighteenth century and the publication of
F.A. Wolf's Prolegomena zu Homer (1795) to the current day. Each entry is accompanied by an
appreciation of the scholar's career by an expert and where possible, a portrait. This is a work of
international cooperation with an advisory committee composed of experts in the history of classical
scholarship not only in North America, but in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy.

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Nikola Moushmov's (1896 -1942) Ancient Coins of the Balkan Peninsula and the Coins of the Bulgarian Monarchs,
was published in 1912, originally in "Old Bulgarian" (that is, using
archaic word forms that would confound automated translation software)
plus Latin translations of headings. It is particularly comprehensive
for Roman Provincial coins of Moesia and Thrace, rather like an old form
of today's excellent "Greek Imperial Coins" volumes by Ivan Varbanov.

The original book is arranged alphabetically by city and chronologically
by ruler within that city, then alphabetical by reverse type, e.g.
Aesklepios before Apollo, before Artemis, before Athena. [Note that the
English translation does not have the reverse types in alphabetical
order.]

Moushmov is less than fully definitive on each listed type, and employs a
clever trick with the plates. He lists the various possible legends
for the ruler(s) at the beginning of their sections, then lists the
types (e.g "Concordia seated with patera & cornucopaie") for them,
but without associating specific legends of either the obverse or the reverse
with that entry. It is therefore most likely that there are a number of
different possible legends, legend breaks, legend configuration, bust
types, sizes or magistrate's name for any given Moushmov number. Such
differences are not vars. I would say that a var is only one which is
not listed in other, more precise works, e.g. AMNG, Varbanov, RecGen,
BMC etc.

Moushmov's photographic plates provide examples of most reverse types,
using the illustrations of generic types, so he uses, e.g. a coin from
Markianopolis to illustrate the same type from Nikopolis, Tomis and
Kallatis - a clever way to save space in his plates, but which may cause
confusion among beginners, so hopefully they will read this intro
first!

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.